Found the tree and most the ornaments including this coon one in the St Vincent de Paul's Dumpster.

I worked construction and the electrician gets all the good shit id hide away all the old cuppernickle pipes we replaced but the wiring just dissapears when the wire guy pulls up

Banana brandy stripping runs today. I got 15 gallons of wash to run. Its tasting really good off the tap. This is about as fast as i can run a stripping run on the cheapo vevor 5 gal still cause the condenser doesnt have much knockdown power. any faster and you get liquor steam escaping even if you keep your condensing water cool.

My 3rd liquor run out of the cheapo vevor and so far my reflections on distilling are these:
1) Good in good out. I used to think you could use a still to take a bad hooch and turn it into decent swill. Maybe on a reflux still not sure. but not so for a pot still. Make a good wash and youll get good booze. My first two spirit runs i ran were 2 experimental batches i made with scraps that werent great. The wash was old and sitting on the yeast and sediment for like months. It smelled and tasted funky. I ran it and the booze concentrated the funky grossness.
2) Even if your still isnt dirty or corroded you should probably run vinegar then water after every batch. I got funkyness from batch 1 in the second batch i ran. I took everything apart and cleaned it all with soap and water, and it sat for a week. I did a vinegar run last night and guess what? A lot of funkyness from batch 1 came out with that vinegar. The following water run tasted clean.
Thats all i got so far.

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Oh no. I thought it was a bastion of freedom tbh. He is a pretty liberal guy.

This is the future that yankee nutcase wants for us over at @thedailypoor! Where are the grits? The busicuits and gravy? The fried steak, sausage, and bacon! The eggs that are runny as hell! The morning unpasteurized whole milk! What a square.

Hmmm

Time for a snack

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Until winter is over, I will continue to jack torrence post. He's literally me!